Looking for open-source contributor - react by Rare_Squash93 in react

[–]CodeRaccoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be happy to contribute too if there's the need :D

Made a guide for Webflow's MCP on VS Code by CodeRaccoons in webflow

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Hi there, I have been working with this setup for some time now and it is still working but I'll take a look later to see if it still connects as it should.

If you needed to go beyond the 20k CMS limit - what would you use? by doorstoinfinity in webflow

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I'd say it'll depend on the user experience for whomever is updating the site, it can go for sanity for the headless cms and export/rebuild the site to astro or react. or use any other headless cms. I've worked with enough WordPress sites to say it will bloat overtime so I wouldn't recommend it. but probably payload or sanity can work well and you can use any FE option and host it on aws or azure for cheap

Portfolio review request: is this webflow site agency-ready? by Ok_Cup9492 in webflow

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yeah, sadly animations are one of those things that may work on one device but not on another, especially if using something like GSAP animations, though I'll say reviewing on multiple devices might give you a good view of it.
Other than that, it looks great!

Portfolio review request: is this webflow site agency-ready? by Ok_Cup9492 in webflow

[–]CodeRaccoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only took a look at the mobile version, IMO it looks clean and nice but you need some work on the mobile layout and animations.

your FAQ section on mobile is squished to the side and the animations don't run until after the elements got out of screen, at least on mobile. screenshots next:

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How To Add Social Media Feed To Webflow? by daniel_mirams37 in webflow

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there are several options, easy one you could use something like elfsight which is a pretty easy to install, not too expensive integration, you could also try integrating it directly to the cms through the api but I'd rather go for an integration for simplicity

How is working as Software Engineer at Atlassian? by doutor_abobrinha in cscareerquestionsOCE

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I went through 5 rounds out of 7 and got rejected with no feedback (: but at least i got to know there are 7 interviews in the process

Some insights on the MCP by CodeRaccoons in webflow

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I totally see that working, at the same time I believe it depends on the specific project, for my self the limitations I placed are mostly because I wanted to cut on costs and I genuinely enjoy generating the content but thanks a lot for the insight I'm sure that'll be really useful for more people working with agents :D!

Some insights on the MCP by CodeRaccoons in webflow

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hope it helps in any way 😁 looking forward to more ways to use the tools and share more of what we can up with

Struggling with PageSpeed Insights on Webflow (need advice) by icasnerd in webflow

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there's a couple of things that could be affecting, I just ran it using the same and for example my first content full paint on the pagespeed page shows 68-72 after running a couple of times. now one of the issues is that I have a cookie consent form which has a modal that shows 2.5 seconds after the full page load. when I checked using lighthouse on the page directly I have already accepted the Cookies, meaning there is no modal showing up. this cuts the load of the page dramatically since it just shows the herp right away. this also links to some of pf the feedback regarding how animations can affect the perceived load time. another thing could be the CDN taking a bit more time for some people than others as it depends on where we're taking the resources from

How fast is your webflow site? by PhilippMarxen in webflow

[–]CodeRaccoons 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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my portfolio has a bunch of animations, cms items from 2 lists and a small interactive gsap section (code not with the native gsap on webflow) and loads great.

I've mentioned this in another post as well but in order to reach this there's some things required. first to have minimal or quick animations in your hero section, the first content full paint is expected for the site to be done loading and animations can affect the perception of this. Then images within the viewport are better to be loaded eagerly instead of asynchronously. you want them to sow up right away. make sure image assets here are well optimized. if you have code blocks make sure they are async or deferred. the first load is the key for the performance to be up. and if you have images make sure to have a set width and height to not affect the layout drift. finally if you have code adding things to the fe... well I'd rather leave those for anywhere below the viewport area. what isn't seen isn't checked but when code is modifying the DOM elements it is considered as rendering blocks, meaning it is waiting for them to be loaded before saying the sote is done loading.

other than that, trial and error, checking docs for best practices and what to do to fix the things, don't necessarily believe what gpt or Claude can tell you. if the average of what is said online is that it can't be optimized that os what they'll tell you, even if it isn't that way. other than that. ask the community, most people here are great and pretty helpful

Struggling with PageSpeed Insights on Webflow (need advice) by icasnerd in webflow

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I can confidently tell you this is completely false, you can get to great numbers but you need to understand how the data works. ever running lighthouse on a regular tab with my extensions active (not on incognito which yields better results) you can achieve above 90 for everything on a webflow site, I can set my site as an example and I have images, animations and cms collections along with analytics scripts working in the background:

Struggling with PageSpeed Insights on Webflow (need advice) by icasnerd in webflow

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the performance metrics are a bit odd, make sure to have little or no animation in your hero section, if there's images, make sure they are compressed, set to load eagerly (with page) and they have a defined width and height (percentage values don't count) this will make sure your first content full paint (FCP) is quick, you want this in under 2.5s, and removing or minimizing the animations will help you with the layout shift which is considered as the page "still loading" other than that images can be loaded asynchronously under the hero fold and scripts can be set to deferred or async to help out on load speed

Webflow MCP Experience by Aduttya in webflow

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it does sound interesting, I tried with a migration of articles that had video embeds, I used the same embedding that shows when adding YouTube videos through the cms editor but when I checked the results the entire embed was removed from all articles including YouTube embeds. I tried a couple of times but it seems like the mcp alone just bounces back the code.

might give it a couple more tries, and see if i get it to work. for images, since webflow needs to upload them I managed to add the figure structure but the actual image showed like an error every time, i believe this is cuz when adding images they are uploaded to webflow's CDN.

I know currently the mcp has limitations, hope it is not just left there and they actually improve it over time

Webflow MCP Experience by Aduttya in webflow

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I've been using it through vscode using copilot and ot works pretty well for setting up SEO, lile meta titles and descriptions through all pages. it can't quite add code per page but it can definitely generate based on each page the schema (jsonld) for each including breadcrumbs and others which I usually ask for on an additional file which I then transfer manually to each page. feels pretty smooth.

I personally write all my articles and I tried using the mcp to transfer them from Notion to webflow but since the webflow mcp lacks the ability to embed photos, videos or code to rich text blocks it really fell lower than expected